The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and ...

As conservation efforts make the waters in the New York region more inviting for whales, increasing traffic from ships and ...

Wooller knows that mammoths lived on Alaska’s St. Paul Island until about 5,600 years ago and on Russia’s Wrangell Island ...

Thousands of native oysters have been planted in Belfast Lough in the latest effort to restore their presence in Northern ...

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2025 was a record-breaking year for the number of animals reported to the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT). Over 100,000 individual whales, dolphins, porpoises and other marine megafauna were ...

Learn all about the unmistakable pilot whale, from their diet and size to life in the pod and why, sadly, they're prone to ...

A young 32-foot humpback whale washed up on shore along the Delaware coast last week after it may have been struck by a large ...

Authorities have launched an investigation after a dead whale was found on the bow of a ship coming to port at a marine terminal in New Jersey.

The humpback whale that washed up near Bethany Beach on Jan. 8 likely died from being struck by a large ship, according to ...

There are only 370 right whales left. If human activity doesn't change, the population may not be large enough to continue to ...

The growth plates, known as specimens UAMN3760 and UAMN3724, were discovered near Fairbanks in the early 1950s. University of Alaska Museum of the North In the early 1950s, naturalist Otto Geist was ...